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My blog post are of varied topics ranging from personal experiences, travel, wild life photographs, interesting news, of happenings around the world that catches my fancy. In other words i write about anything when i am in a mood to write

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Visit to Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary

During my visit to Mysore during the first week of November i made it a point to visit Ranganthittu bird sanctuary which is near the historic town Sriranganpatana about 18 kms from Mysore city. During this period there were hardly any migratory birds which normally come around mid December to January, however was able to see considerable numbers of White Ibis, black headed Ibis, egrets, bats, crocodiles. Here are few pictures of the same




Crocodile basking in the sun





Bats having their nap




Crocodile in the river just beside the boat




 Black headed Ibis




Greater Thick Knee or the Stone plover or Great Stone curlew




Open billed Stork




Black Cormorant




Group of Cormorants, Black headed Ibis









The sanctuary consists of six islets which are lush with vegetation where there water birds nest and whenever  excess water is being released from the KRS dam these islets are generally flooded and during these times there is no boating and you would be forced to view these birds from the river bank only. The main attraction of this sanctuary is the boating ( row boats only) which is operated throughout the day by Karnataka Forest department staff depending on the crowd and you get to be up close with these birds. An interesting news is that this sanctuary came into existence in 1940 due to Dr Salim Ali the famous ornithologist when he requested the king of Mysore to declare this area as a sanctuary. A great place to be for bird watchers and lovers.

Friday, December 20, 2013

Mysore Zoo ... a colorful time spent there

Mysore trip is incomplete if you have not visited the Zoo that is located in the center of the city. Mysore zoo is one of the oldest and well maintained zoo of India and during my recent trip visited the zoo with an aim of capturing few good photographs. here are few colorful photographs of the inmates




Mandarin Duck (normal photography)















Mandarin Duck photographed with Vivid color setting











Giraffe













                          Gorilla






Zebra





African Elephant











Variety of Parrots



















Lot more pictures have been captured but am sure i am the millionth guy posting them here.